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poses

n. (plural of pose English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: pose)

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Poses (album)

Poses is the second studio album by the American-Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, released through DreamWorks Records in June 2001. The album was produced, recorded, and mixed by Pierre Marchand, with select tracks produced by Propellerheads' Alex Gifford ("Shadows"), Ethan Johns ("California"), Damian LeGassick ("The Tower of Learning"), and Greg Wells (" Across the Universe").

Poses contains ornate, piano-driven arrangements that cite a wide variety of musical sources, from " indie pop to Gershwin to trip-hop and back again." The album took a year and a half to record, with most of it written during Wainwright's six-month stay at the Chelsea Hotel. While Poses continues the enveloping sound established by Wainwright's debut album, collaborations between Wainwright and various producers and guest musicians pushed it in different directions, resulting in drum loops, "gritty beats in unexpected places", and a "fuller, live" sound. Using fewer operatic elements than the previous album, in an attempt to create a more radio-friendly pop record, Poses addresses debauchery and love in less esoteric means. Guests on the album include Wainwright's sister, Martha Wainwright, fellow singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson, and rock musician Melissa Auf der Maur.

All tracks were written by Wainwright except for "Shadows", which was co-written by Alex Gifford, and "One Man Guy", a song written and originally performed by Wainwright's father, Loudon Wainwright III. The bonus track "Across the Universe" is a Lennon–McCartney song that Wainwright recorded initially for the 2001 film I Am Sam, and later re-recorded with producer Greg Wells for Poses.

Poses debuted at #117 on the Billboard 200, and Wainwright ranked #1 on Billboard magazine's Top Heatseekers chart. He won the Outstanding Music Album award at the 2002 GLAAD Media Awards, and at the Juno Awards of 2002 was nominated for Best Songwriter and took home the award for Best Alternative Album. Several years following its release, Poses was certified gold by the Canadian Recording Industry Association and included on Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" list and on Out magazine's "100 Greatest, Gayest Albums" list.

Poses

Poses may refer to:

  • Pose (Daddy Yankee song)
  • Plural of pose
  • Poses (album), Rufus Wainwright's second album
  • Poses, Eure, a commune of the Eure department in France

Usage examples of "poses".

Instead, Monday, Quincy and the three Chinese cartwheeled into the pista, beckoned Brutus onto the teeterboard and, as she seesawed happily, did their poses and pyramids and leapfrogging on her back.

I can't leave the CraftHall without someone who appreciates the threat Fax poses to the entire world.

It must not be forgotten, for it poses questions that I have to answer.

She forgave Mirrim all her little poses and attitudes, aware that that was how Mirrim had masked her intense anxiety and grief.

Thella was the one most frequently drawn, in different poses and angles and, in a few cases, in what Jayge realized were disguises.

Perschar, the best artist in the Harper Hall, had sent along portrait sketches of Boskoney, Tomol and Lesselam, several poses of each including a full length drawing in color.

The horses went side by side around and around the ring, while the man and woman assumed various artistic poses, sometimes both of them using both horses, sometimes one of them on each horse, sometimes both on one.

Then she put a foot in the loop, let herself fall until one hand gripped the pole, and did the same poses upside down.

He had caught onto the ladder, of course, and its upper end was secured somewhere inside the wicker rim, and now he was doing the same acrobatic poses and contortions and convulsions that he did in the ring on his wooden ladder, and the crowd was laughing and sobbing with relief, and cheering and applauding with pleasure.

After the elephant had got used to seesawing by herself, she was gradually persuaded to do the same with one and another of the Chinese on her back, until all three of them were up there, doing poses and pyramids, and eventually with Monday and Tuesday also up there joining in the posturing, while the great beast happily teetered and occasionally trumpeted with joy.

Even without practice, Ali Baba did a commendable job of imitating Daphne's poses and handstands and upside-down splits.

The artistes took up their positions and graceful poses on the various wagons, but here, as they had done on other wintry occasions, they only intermittently opened their cloaks or furs to give the street crowds glimpses of their skimpy costumes and bare flesh.

The troupers on the wagon seats or beds or tops kept their graceful poses, and mechanically waved and smiled and blew kisses, and absentmindedly flicked open their coats or cloaks to flash their spangles and skin, for they were meanwhile ogling Paris as raptly as the Parisians were ogling them.

The colonel and Monday put their horses to fancy steps, and Clover Lee, Arpád, Gusztáv and Zoltán did stands and poses as they rode.

Heliotypes of Isaac with his friends in various poses around the city and in Rudewood dotted the walls.